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TÉLUQ building, Québec City.
CA-K1227Institutions

Université TÉLUQ, Quebec’s distance-learning university

Université TÉLUQ began in 1972 as an experimental “Télé-université” project to make university studies accessible to as many people as possible. It offered its first course in 1974, an introduction to co-operatives created with Desjardins, and has devoted itself entirely to distance education.

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Photo: Dominique Fourcaudot (COMM-TÉLUQ) · Photo licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Credit & context
Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa.
CA-K1224Institutions

University of Ottawa, from the College of Bytown

The University of Ottawa began as the College of Bytown, founded in 1848 by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate as a bilingual Catholic college where students studied in English and French. Renamed the College of Ottawa, it received university status by royal charter in 1866 and a pontifical charter in 1889.

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Johnston Green, University of Guelph.
CA-K1223Institutions

University of Guelph

The University of Guelph was established in 1964 from the Ontario Agricultural College, the Ontario Veterinary College and the Macdonald Institute. The agricultural college traces its origins to the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm, opened in May 1874.

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Saint Mary’s University, Halifax.
CA-K1219Institutions

Saint Mary’s University, Halifax

Saint Mary’s University traces its beginnings to 1802, when the Reverend Edmund Burke taught young men at the Glebe House in Halifax. The boys’ school grew into a college and then a university, and received degree-granting status from the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1841.

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Queen Elizabeth II Library, University Centre and clocktower at Memorial University in St. John’s, 2007.
CA-K1217Institutions

Memorial University of Newfoundland, a living memorial

Memorial University College was founded in St. John’s in 1925 to commemorate Newfoundlanders who died in the First World War. Its institutional history also traces the development of higher education in Newfoundland to the Council of Higher Education, established in 1893.

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University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George.
CA-K1216Institutions

University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George

The University of Northern British Columbia was officially created in June 1990, when the BC legislature passed the UNBC Act. The modern campaign began in January 1987, when three Prince George residents, Tom Steadman, Charles McCaffrey and Bryson Stone, each invited 10 people to a meeting about a northern university, and 40 came.

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Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie.
CA-K1207Institutions

Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie

Algoma University was established in 1965. It is located on the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School site in Sault Ste. Marie. Its special mission includes cross-cultural learning between Indigenous communities and other communities in Northern Ontario.

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Main building, John Abbott College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
CA-K1205Institutions

John Abbott College, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue

John Abbott College, an English-language CEGEP in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, was incorporated in 1970 and welcomed its first students in September 1971. Its name honours Sir John Abbott, Canada’s third prime minister.

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Photo: Parcours riverain - Ville de Montréal from Canada · Photo licence: CC BY 2.0 · Credit & context
Building of the Cégep Garneau, Québec City.
CA-K1203Institutions

Cégep Garneau, Québec City

The Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel François-Xavier-Garneau was created in August 1969 from the Collège des Jésuites, the École normale Mérici and the École normale Laval, starting with 550 students. In 2012 it chose to call itself a cégep and adopted Garneau as its key name; it honours the historian François-Xavier Garneau.

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